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LONDON
Most Famous People Born in London, United Kingdom
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Edward Linley Sambourne
1844 - 1910
Gordon Harker
1885 - 1967
Charles Altamont Doyle
1832 - 1893
Emma Hardinge Britten
1823 - 1899
Matthew Kneale
Born 1960
Christopher Challis
1919 - 2012
John Horne Tooke
1736 - 1812
Roger Cohen
Born 1955
Tobias Matthay
1858 - 1945
Cunninghame Graham
1852 - 1936
Jerome Thomas
Born 1983
Jack Hildyard
1908 - 1990
Margalo Gillmore
1897 - 1986
Benjamin Wallfisch
Born 1979
Tamara Mellon
Born 1967
Sabrina P. Ramet
Born 1949
Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford
1868 - 1933
Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness Conyngham
1769 - 1861
Thomas Stothard
1755 - 1834
Simon Reeve (British TV presenter)
Born 1972
Al Alvarez
1929 - 2019
Annabel Croft
Born 1966
Lance Reventlow
1936 - 1972
Desirèe Henry
Born 1995
Anna Shaffer
Born 1992
Karla Crome
Born 1988
Julius Drake
Born 1959
William Rutter Dawes
1799 - 1868
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
1891 - 1992
Alex da Kid
Born 1983
Griffith Jones (actor)
1909 - 2007
Tom Keating
1917 - 1984
John Mason Neale
1818 - 1866
Herbert Dingle
1890 - 1978
George Albert Wells
1926 - 2017
Geoff Bell (actor)
Born 1963
Deborah Moore
Born 1963
Walter William Skeat
1835 - 1912
Samuel Hunter Christie
1784 - 1865
Ian Gilmour, Baron Gilmour of Craigmillar
1926 - 2007
Claude Montefiore
1858 - 1938
Nikolas Rose
Born 1947
Helen Taylor (feminist)
1831 - 1907
John Callcott Horsley
1817 - 1903
Stan Tracey
1926 - 2013
John Howard (British Army officer)
1912 - 1999
Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch
1695 - 1751
John Pond
1767 - 1836
Margaretta Scott
1912 - 2005
George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton
1760 - 1844
John Francis Davis
1795 - 1890
Sheila MacRae
1924 - 2014
Elspeth Huxley
1907 - 1997
William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton
1811 - 1863
Tasha Danvers
Born 1977
Emerald Fennell
Born 1985
Derek Meddings
1931 - 1995
Gary Wallis
Born 1964
Geoffrey Pyke
1893 - 1948
Richard Arnell
1917 - 2009
Lee Thompson (saxophonist)
Born 1957
Frederick Guthrie
1833 - 1886
Timothy Winter
Born 1960
Richard Rowlands
1550 - 1640
Barry Guy
Born 1947
Catriona MacColl
Born 1954
Alfred Lyttelton
1857 - 1913
Gareth Evans (philosopher)
1946 - 1980
David Hemblen
1940 - 2020
Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward
1791 - 1868
Edis (singer)
Born 1990
Jessie Burton
Born 1982
Richard Cumberland (philosopher)
1631 - 1718
Dominique Tipper
Born 1985
Christopher Fulford
Born 1955
Caroline Chikezie
Born 1974
Indra Ové
Born 1968
Charles Groves
1915 - 1992
Simon Nicol
Born 1950
Henry Eccles
1670 - 1742
George Bellas Greenough
1778 - 1855
Beardyman
Born 1982
William Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne
1859 - 1942
Richard Gordon (English author)
1921 - 2017
Hudson Stuck
1863 - 1920
George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 3rd Duke of Sutherland
1828 - 1892
Jo Frost
Born 1971
Ellen Browning Scripps
1836 - 1932
Wynne Godley
1926 - 2010
Ferdinand Gottschalk
1858 - 1944
Job Charnock
1630 - 1692
Dale Winton
1955 - 2018
Lionel Chetwynd
Born 1940
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey
1696 - 1743
Marilyn Okoro
Born 1984
John S. Robertson
1878 - 1964
Pennie Smith
Born 1949
Charles Gabriel Seligman
1873 - 1940
David Rhodes (guitarist)
Born 1956
Henry Holiday
1839 - 1927
Stephen Storace
1762 - 1796
Vincent Novello
1781 - 1861
Linvoy Primus
Born 1973
Graham Priest
Born 1948
Thomas Burke (author)
1886 - 1945
Anthony Dowell
Born 1943
Peter Honess
Born 1946
Sam Adekugbe
Born 1995
Emma Georgina Rothschild
Born 1948
Gifford Palgrave
1826 - 1888
Craig Tracy
Born 1945
Rebecca Front
Born 1964
Christine Adams (actress)
Born 1974
Beatrice Hastings
1879 - 1943
Camilla and Carey More
Born 1957
Ada Leverson
1862 - 1933
Edward Marsh (polymath)
1872 - 1953
Freddy Kempf
Born 1977
Dick James
1920 - 1986
General Levy
Born 1971
Gary Carr (actor)
Born 1986
Terry Kilburn
Born 1926
Leonard Huxley (writer)
1860 - 1933
Andy Anderson (drummer)
1951 - 2019
Edward Fortunatus
1565 - 1600
John Braham
1774 - 1856
Monica Dickens
1915 - 1992
Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe
1867 - 1958
Andrew Dunn (cinematographer)
Born 1950
Charles Kent (actor)
1852 - 1923
Steve Brookstein
Born 1968
Ronald Gillespie
Born 1924
Charles Hanbury Williams
1708 - 1759
John Pascoe Fawkner
1792 - 1869
Constantine Louloudis
Born 1991
Eddie Hardin
1949 - 2015
Margaret Boden
Born 1936
Kevin Lisbie
Born 1978
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas
Born 1990
Michael Marmot
Born 1945
Landon Ronald
1873 - 1938
Ronald Wright
Born 1948
Anna Russell
1911 - 2006
Philip Pickett
Born 1950
Walter Terence Stace
1886 - 1967
Robin Coombs
1921 - 2006
Tom Ricketts
1853 - 1939
Fenella Fielding
1927 - 2018
Thom Noble
Born 1935
Douglas William Jerrold
1803 - 1857
Hugo Swire
Born 1959
Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford
1718 - 1794
Norman Reynolds
Born 1934
H. J. R. Murray
1868 - 1955
James Gascoyne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury
1791 - 1868
Rowan Joffé
Born 1973
Diana Barnato Walker
1918 - 2008
Bulstrode Whitelocke
1605 - 1675
Nik Cohn
Born 1946
Michael Korda
Born 1933
St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton
1856 - 1942
Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort
1744 - 1803
Alfred George Greenhill
1847 - 1927
Geoffrey Winthrop Young
1876 - 1958
Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland
1856 - 1937
Horace Jones (architect)
1819 - 1887
Leslie Norman (director)
1911 - 1993
Mike Lindup
Born 1959
Henrietta Rae
1859 - 1928
Robert Nye
1939 - 2016
Stephen Lewis (actor)
1936 - 2015
Pat Pattle
1914 - 1941
Martin Stone (wrestler)
Born 1981
William Butterfield
1814 - 1900
Harry Thompson
1960 - 2005
Nicolas Freeling
1927 - 2003
Gisela Richter
1882 - 1972
Cornelius Johnson (artist)
1593 - 1661
Garry Bushell
Born 1955
Frances Partridge
1900 - 2004
Ben Proud
Born 1994
Clelia Matania
1918 - 1981
Sarah Murdoch
Born 1972
William Bentinck, 4th Duke of Portland
1768 - 1854
Elizabeth Pierrepont, Duchess of Kingston-upon-Hull
1720 - 1788
Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey
1845 - 1915
Amanda Hale
Born 1982
Constantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby
1797 - 1863
Paul Ginsborg
Born 1945
Walter Henry Medhurst
1796 - 1857
Brian Sewell
1931 - 2015
Clifford Dupont
1905 - 1978
F. A. Mitchell-Hedges
1882 - 1959
Sally Beamish
Born 1956
Percy Marmont
1883 - 1977
Diana Russell, Duchess of Bedford
1710 - 1735
Ben Watson (footballer, born July 1985)
Born 1985
Michelle Gayle
Born 1971
Micheál Mac Liammóir
1899 - 1978
Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
Born 1945
William Brydon
1811 - 1873
Gerard Batten
Born 1954
Hugo Guinness
Born 1959
Edward Matthew Ward
1816 - 1879
William Collins (painter)
1788 - 1847
Oliver Stapleton
Born 1948
Judith Blunt-Lytton, 16th Baroness Wentworth
1873 - 1957
Hamo Thornycroft
1850 - 1925
Gertrude Caton Thompson
1888 - 1985
Colin Dann
Born 1943
Madge Gill
1882 - 1961
Sydney Tafler
1916 - 1979
Francis Seymour Haden
1818 - 1910
Rupert Allason
Born 1951
Camille O'Sullivan
Born 1974
Kenny Pavey
Born 1979
David Rappaport
1951 - 1990
Denis McQuail
1935 - 2017
John Robert Seeley
1834 - 1895
Katy Saunders
Born 1984
Ian Wallace (singer)
1919 - 2009
Holly Golightly (singer)
Born 1966
Mary Hays
1759 - 1843
Geoffrey Jellicoe
1900 - 1996
Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle
1702 - 1754
Major Ritchie
1870 - 1955
William Miller (footballer, born 1996)
Born 1996
Denis Mahon
1910 - 2011
Denise Robins
1897 - 1985
Martin Gould
Born 1981
Daniel Chatto
Born 1957
William Melling
Born 1994
Richard Ford (English writer)
1796 - 1858
Mark Bedford
Born 1961
Martin Charteris, Baron Charteris of Amisfield
1913 - 1999
Michael Carreras
1927 - 1994
Alison Skipworth
1863 - 1952
Mike Pratt (actor)
1931 - 1976
James Alison
Born 1959
Harold French
1897 - 1997
Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham
1781 - 1851
Mary Moser
1744 - 1819
Serena Gordon
Born 1963
David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie
Born 1926
Lord Ronald Gower
1845 - 1916
Caleb Quaye
Born 1948
Perry Benson
Born 1961
Cynthia Addai-Robinson
Born 1985
Matt Di Angelo
Born 1987
Anjem Choudary
Born 1967
Robin Dixon, 3rd Baron Glentoran
Born 1935
Shy FX
Born 1976
M. J. Cole
Born 1973
Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington
1849 - 1934
Robert White (composer)
1538 - 1574
Dave Sexton
1930 - 2012
Katie Chapman
Born 1982
John H. Edwards
1928 - 2007
Henry Aldrich
1648 - 1710
Eric Till
Born 1929
Michael A. Epstein
Born 1921
Christopher Gable
1940 - 1998
William Windham
1750 - 1810
William Coxe (historian)
1747 - 1828
Dorothy de Rothschild
1895 - 1988
Gerry Fisher
1926 - 2014
John Coplans
1920 - 2003
Joan Barry (British actress)
1903 - 1989
Richard Friend
Born 1953
Ned Beauman
Born 1985
Richard Wright (artist)
Born 1960
Rebecca Solomon
1832 - 1886
Martin Folkes
1690 - 1754
Lee Montague
Born 1927
Alexander Monro (primus)
1697 - 1767
F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas
1902 - 1964
Adrian Bowyer
Born 1952
Chrissie White
1895 - 1989
Michael Adeane, Baron Adeane
1910 - 1984
Frederick Smith (entomologist)
1805 - 1879
Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne
1873 - 1939
Benjamin Daydon Jackson
1846 - 1927
Paul Fildes
1882 - 1971
Bamber Gascoigne
Born 1935
Gabriel Thomson
Born 1986
Christopher O'Neill
Born 1974
William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
1591 - 1668
Julian Anderson
Born 1967
David Olive
1937 - 2012
Charles FitzCharles, 1st Earl of Plymouth
1657 - 1680
Long Dong Silver
Born 1960
Helen Maria Williams
1759 - 1827
Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg
1902 - 1944
Henry Oscar
1891 - 1969
Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer
1897 - 1972
Wyndham Halswelle
1882 - 1915
Sarvadaman Chowla
1907 - 1995
Thomas Watson (poet)
1555 - 1592
Adam Thirlwell
Born 1978
William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster
1749 - 1804